# 1892 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1892 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd
* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Richard Davies
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – W. R. M. Wynne
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite
* Bishop of Bangor – Daniel Lewis Lloyd
* Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis
* Bishop of St Asaph – Alfred George Edwards
* Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones

## Events

* January – The children's magazine Cymru'r Plant is launched by Owen Morgan Edwards.
* 5 March – St Michael's & All Angels (Anglican) Theological College is founded at Aberdare.
* 30 May – The South Wales Argus, published in Newport, is launched.
* 14 July – Official inauguration of the Liverpool water supply from Lake Vyrnwy. The Vyrnwy dam is the first high masonry gravity dam in Britain.
* 13 September – The Watkin Path up Snowdon is officially opened by William Ewart Gladstone.
* 14 September – The Cardiff water supply from Cantref Reservoir is officially inaugurated by the Mayor of Merthyr Tydfil.
* date unknown
** J.D. Lewis establishes the Gomer Press at Llandysul.
** The Parc and Dare Hall in Treorchy opens as a workingmen's institute and library.

## Arts and literature
### Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Rhyl
* Chair – Evan Jones, "Y Cenhadwr"
* Crown – John John Roberts, "Dewi Sant"

### New books

* D Davies – Patagonia: a description of the country
* Daniel James (Gwyrosydd) – Caniadau Gwyrosydd
* Thomas Gwynn Jones – Eglwys y Dyn Tlawd
* John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy) – Lloffion yr Amddifad

### Music

* Joseph Parry – Saul of Tarsus (oratorio)
* David Christmas Williams – Traeth Llafar (cantata)

## Sport

* Baseball – The Welsh Baseball Union is founded.
* Football – The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the fourth time in its 13-year history.
* Golf – The course at Aberdovey is opened.

## Births

* 23 March – Jack Whitfield, Wales rugby union captain (died 1927)
* 15 May – Jimmy Wilde, professional boxer (died 1969)
* 12 June – Hilda Vaughan, novelist (died 1985)
* 20 June – Geoffrey Crawshay, soldier and social benefactor (died 1954)
* 25 July – Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, soldier and medical administrator (died 1973)
* 12 August – Jerry Shea, Welsh rugby union and rugby league player (died 1947)
* 18 September – Joe Johns, Welsh lightweight boxing champion (died 1927)
* 12 November – Tudor Davies, operatic tenor (died 1958)
* 19 November – Huw T. Edwards, trade union leader and politician (died 1970)

## Deaths

* 13 February – William Davies, palaeontologist, 76
* 5 March – Theophilus Redwood, pharmacist, 85
* 15 March – Mesac Thomas, Anglican bishop in Australia, 75
* 22 April – William Williams, Presbyterian missionary in India, 33 (typhoid)
* 24 April – John Davies (Ossian Gwent), poet, 53
* 27 April – Edward Wingfield Humphreys, Welsh-born New Zealand politician, 50/51
* 6 May – Robert J. Davies, Calvinistic Methodist leader, 52
* 5 June – Robert Rees, singer and musician, 51
* 19 June – Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn, industrialist and politician, 78
* 3 October – William Davies (Gwilym Teilo), poet and historian, 61
* 26 November – Edward Matthews, minister and author, 79
* 18 December – Richard Owen, anatomist, 88
* 23 December – John Gibson, architect of the Marble Church, Bodelwyddan, 75
* 27 December – Samuel Holland, politician, 89